Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hollywood movies have not been quite the same since Laurence Olivier's Henry V showed how much meaning and sensuousness can be put over with human...
...long view of history, says Schlesinger, "We delude ourselves when we think that history teaches us that evil will be 'outmoded' by progress and that politics consequently does not impose on us the necessity for decision and struggle . . . History is not a redeemer, promising to solve all human problems in time; nor is man capable of transcending the limitations of his being...
...ever grown up quite like Shirley Temple. She was a movie actress at four,* a star at six, and then a dimpled, curly-topped national institution. Between seven and ten, she was the No. 1 box-office draw in the U.S.; at eight, she was the most photographed human being on earth. At nine, while other little girls waited for their permanent teeth to come in, she wore costly false teeth to hide the gaps from the camera. When she was ten, a Dies Committee witness denounced her as a Communist dupe. At 13, she was a has-been (with...
Every now & then-in shots of stampeding horses and the handling of human beings against the great outdoors-there are fleeting reminders of Ford's best films. But mostly, Yellow Ribbon is a sad waste of talent and Technicolor...
Germany Year Zero. Roberto Rossellini's grim, graphic story of a twelve-year-old boy among the human rubble of Germany's occupation (TIME, Sept...